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Since email was invented, it has become a crucial form of communication in our
private and professional lives. Even with the growing popularity of other
communication platforms, such as instant messaging and video conferencing, email
continues to hol
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You need an email address to exist at all in the online world. Signing up for
YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, or any other online service requires one.
It’s also our go-to method of communication for online banking, purchasing, and
business deals
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This article has undergone a complete refresh, published on May 31, 2023. We
removed Wickr because AWS, its new owners, have withdrawn the product to focus
on enterprise solutions. We also removed Keybase because it’s now owned by Zoom.
We replaced
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In 2017, hackers stole the private financial records of some 156 million people
from servers belonging to Equifax, while the 2018 Facebook-Cambridge Analytica
scandal revealed how personal data belonging to up to 87 million Facebook users
was harvest
USB peripherals (commonly known as “flash drives”), memory cards, and external
hard drives all make backing up and sharing your data simple. And they are
becoming more critical as modern-day schooling, work, and life are increasingly
awash in data. B
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From Hong Kong to Minneapolis, protesters around the world are standing up for
their human rights. The right to peaceful assembly and protest are bedrocks of
democracy, and we support everyone’s ability to exercise these rights. We
created Proton Mai
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Learn all about TLS/SSL certificates, the digital files that help to
authenticate and secure data transfers across the internet.
Whenever you send or receive information on the internet, it passes through a
network of multiple computers to reach th
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This article takes you through all the factors to consider when moving to a new
email provider and leaving privacy-invasive companies such as Gmail, Outlook,
and Yahoo Mail.
Switching your email provider may feel as difficult as moving to a new hous
Nearly all public health experts say we will have to employ testing and tracing
on a massive scale to combat the spread of COVID-19. This has led a number of
countries and tech companies to develop coronavirus contact tracing apps for
smartphones. Th
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Many companies that handle personal information reassure their users by saying
that all the data is “anonymized.” If you don’t know any better, that sounds
reassuring.
However, the method most companies use to anonymize data and the size of modern
d
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As the world is grappling with a sharp rise in the number of COVID-19 cases,
fraudsters are trying to capitalize on the state of panic and even the goodwill
of others.
More than 1,400 coronavirus-related domains were registered over the past three
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